Sentence examples for held audiences from inspiring English sources

For years, you've held audiences in contempt, deliberately making your works obtuse.

(Kozinn) ★ Mitsuko Uchida (Wednesday) This exemplary pianist held audiences at Carnegie spellbound with her recent performances of late Beethoven sonatas.

Toby Spence, who held audiences spellbound in that production as the doomed Lensky, took the award for best singer.

Still, for generations, singers of "Winterreise" have held audiences spellbound with song alone, operating in the usual concert format.

Raúl Ruiz, the Chilean-born film director who has died aged 70 after suffering a lung infection, held audiences with his glittering eye for more than 40 years.

The film is verbose but has long held audiences because of the passionate performances of Burton and O'Toole, which rank among the finest of their careers.

— which forces the movie back to the subject that holds audiences in thrall, romance: Do we love each other?

Why did it succeed then, and why does it still hold audiences?

Earlier he was holding audiences spellbound with an introduction of Mr. McCain that made him sound like a messiah.

Though its story is unlikely to generate a hit play or hold audiences, it has, he said, helped generate a few thoughts here and there.

Her public duties in Scotland like holding audiences with the First Minister or hosting investiture ceremonies would carry on as normal.